At least it's a move to more intelligent advertising. Seeing ads for competing products is a lot better than the old "shove it in their face until they buy it" approach that for some reason they thought would work...
I've never heard of the Xeelee series before, but the plot seems very similar to Last And First Men by Olaf Stapledon, a very ambitious novel from 1930, a Sci-Fi classic.
Not saying that's a bad thing... in fact, if Baxter has been influenced greatly by someone as wonderful as Stapledon, then the books are probably excellent, and I think I'll check them out.
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At least it's a move to more intelligent advertising. Seeing ads for competing products is a lot better than the old "shove it in their face until they buy it" approach that for some reason they thought would work...
I say we build a power plant next to the FCC offices and eliminate NRC fines altogether.
I've never heard of the Xeelee series before, but the plot seems very similar to Last And First Men by Olaf Stapledon, a very ambitious novel from 1930, a Sci-Fi classic.
Not saying that's a bad thing... in fact, if Baxter has been influenced greatly by someone as wonderful as Stapledon, then the books are probably excellent, and I think I'll check them out.